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Definition of cockamamie in English: cockamamie(also cockamamy) adjectiveˈkɒkəˌmeɪmiˈkɑkəˌmeɪmi North American informal Ridiculous; implausible. 〈非正式，主北美〉荒谬可笑的;不像是合情合理的 荒谬的理论。 Example sentencesExamples - Frankly, though, I think he's too nice about it: this ‘theory’ is so cockamamie that it belongs with the tin foil hat brigade.
- He may practice cockamamie politics, but he's a very talented actor and director, and I'm proud of him for finally winning.
- I wasn't the one who talked me into this cockamamy adventure in the first place.
- It will be our cockamamie ideologies that will start to not fit.
- They spend hours convoluting cockamamie stories that work in their pea-brains and expect us to go ‘wow, that sure is smart.’
- Both groups toss aside any fact that gets in their way and trumpet any cockamamie cure-all that supports their goals.
- There is this crazy cockamamie story that went around that we had signed some pact.
- He told me a story about how he duped some UFO buff with a cockamamy story about how he witnessed a UFO.
- Then what makes you think this cockamamie plan is going to work?
- He has espoused some cockamamie theories about the secret society.
- The movie is in such a rush, charging headlong from crisis to fiasco, it's hard not to get carried away by its mad, cockamamie rhythm.
- Well, scrap that cockamamie, and sales-slumping, idea.
- Once you have real evidence, not some conjectured, cockamamie theory, call me.
- My wife is on some cockamamie diet right now that is pretty unappetizing.
- This cockamamie human rights inquisition outfit found him guilty of hate.
- Someone comes up with this cockamamie theory that an e-mail could melt down all the computers and maybe even blow up all the buildings.
- In the end they picked me up on the street for some cockamamy charge and held me, just for an hour, nothing very terrible.
- First thing we gotta do is concoct some kind of cockamamie contraption that'll get us out of this mess.
- No wonder they've been making such cockamamie decisions.
- If you expect me to fall for that cockamamie story that you just told, you've clearly lost your mind!
Origin1940s (originally denoting a design left by a transfer): probably an alteration of decalcomania. RhymesAmy, flamy, gamy, Jamie, Mamie, samey Definition of cockamamie in US English: cockamamie(also cockamamy) adjectiveˈkäkəˌmāmēˈkɑkəˌmeɪmi North American informal Ridiculous; implausible. 〈非正式，主北美〉荒谬可笑的;不像是合情合理的 荒谬的理论。 Example sentencesExamples - This cockamamie human rights inquisition outfit found him guilty of hate.
- Once you have real evidence, not some conjectured, cockamamie theory, call me.
- No wonder they've been making such cockamamie decisions.
- It will be our cockamamie ideologies that will start to not fit.
- They spend hours convoluting cockamamie stories that work in their pea-brains and expect us to go ‘wow, that sure is smart.’
- Both groups toss aside any fact that gets in their way and trumpet any cockamamie cure-all that supports their goals.
- He has espoused some cockamamie theories about the secret society.
- There is this crazy cockamamie story that went around that we had signed some pact.
- He may practice cockamamie politics, but he's a very talented actor and director, and I'm proud of him for finally winning.
- Someone comes up with this cockamamie theory that an e-mail could melt down all the computers and maybe even blow up all the buildings.
- In the end they picked me up on the street for some cockamamy charge and held me, just for an hour, nothing very terrible.
- First thing we gotta do is concoct some kind of cockamamie contraption that'll get us out of this mess.
- The movie is in such a rush, charging headlong from crisis to fiasco, it's hard not to get carried away by its mad, cockamamie rhythm.
- He told me a story about how he duped some UFO buff with a cockamamy story about how he witnessed a UFO.
- My wife is on some cockamamie diet right now that is pretty unappetizing.
- Frankly, though, I think he's too nice about it: this ‘theory’ is so cockamamie that it belongs with the tin foil hat brigade.
- Well, scrap that cockamamie, and sales-slumping, idea.
- I wasn't the one who talked me into this cockamamy adventure in the first place.
- If you expect me to fall for that cockamamie story that you just told, you've clearly lost your mind!
- Then what makes you think this cockamamie plan is going to work?
Origin1940s (originally denoting a design left by a transfer): probably an alteration of decalcomania. |